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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT Best way to compress files with digits
Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2014 22:03:13 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1531404.rTdJ17UZ81@wstn> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54568C33.7070105@gmail.com>

On Sunday 02 November 2014 21:55:31 Alan McKinnon wrote:

> English is a heavily overloaded language and there's always more
> than one way to communicate something

Even the simplest cases usually have three words for the same thing: one from 
French, one from Latin and one from Anglo-Saxon. I won't even mention words 
that have come down from Old German and so on, but at least we don't have 
many words from Italian or Spanish. (Zucchini? What's that?)

-- 
Rgds
Peter



  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-02 22:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-31 15:36 [gentoo-user] OT Best way to compress files with digits meino.cramer
2014-10-31 15:45 ` Ralf
2014-10-31 15:59   ` meino.cramer
2014-10-31 16:52     ` Helmut Jarausch
2014-10-31 17:56     ` Rich Freeman
2014-10-31 18:55       ` David Haller
2014-10-31 19:23         ` Rich Freeman
2014-10-31 20:25           ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2014-10-31 22:22             ` Rich Freeman
2014-11-01 17:15 ` James
2014-11-01 17:26   ` Alan McKinnon
2014-11-01 20:18     ` Matti Nykyri
2014-11-01 17:59   ` meino.cramer
2014-11-01 20:47     ` Alan McKinnon
2014-11-01 21:56       ` David W Noon
2014-11-02 12:06         ` Matti Nykyri
2014-11-03 15:48           ` Grant Edwards
2014-11-02 19:55         ` Alan McKinnon
2014-11-02 22:03           ` Peter Humphrey [this message]
2014-11-03 19:37             ` Mick
2014-11-04  2:04               ` Peter Humphrey
2014-11-04  6:35                 ` Mick

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